‘The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it
This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad? Brighton, 1870: A well-respected spin
On the eve of the centennial Universal Exhibition and the Dreyfus Affair, Boston lawyer James Norton embarks on a desperate quest to find and recover his younger brother and sister.
This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the last two centuries. Lisa Appignanesi charts a story
When Bruno Lind, a neuroscientist and memory expert, returns to Vienna, the city of his birth, more awaits him than he had expected. Propelled by dreams, a chance name overheard in a hotel lobby, and
This is the story of how we have understoodextreme states of mind over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, from the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia
This book presents a comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us
Appignanesi has crafted a classic tale of suspense--perhaps one of the finest you'll ever read in its genre...a lyrical page turner and a rare creation.--The Ottawa Citizen
